Shirt.



E. U. BOAT.

SHIRT. APPLICATION FILED 113811.25, 1912. 1,080,92, Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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WITNESSES MUTE @T EDWIN C. BOAT, O13 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9,1913.

Application filed April 25, 1912. Serial No. 693,015.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that I, EDWIN C. Roar, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphla and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of closed back shirts, wherein a flap having a butt-onhole therein is provided on the outside of the back or central portion of the neck-band to receive the back collar-button between the flap and the body of the neckband, whereby the body of the neck-band protects the neck of the wearer from the collar button. When shirts of this class are starched and ironed, the flap adheres to the body of the neck-band and it is often found extremely difficult to separate the flap from the neck-band for the insertion of the collarbutton therebetween.

The object of my invention is to overcome this difficulty and I accomplish my object by providing a closed back shirt of novel, simple and inexpensive construction having a flap on the outside of the back or central portion of the neck-band and attached along its upper edge and down one of its side edges to the neck-band, leaving its other side edge and its bottom edge free to be moved outwardly from the neck-band so that the thumb or finger nail of a person may readily engage the corner of the flap formed by its bottom and its free side edge to disengage it from the body of the neckband when it adheres thereto, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention: Figure 1, is a view of the top portion of a shirt body having a neckband thereon, embodying my invention, as seen from the back of the shirt. Fig. 2, is a view of the central portion of the inner strip of fabric forming the neck-band. Fig. 3, is a View of the inside of the central portion of the outer strip of fabric forming the neck-band, showing the cut away portion of the inner member. Fig. 4, is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the manner of folding the outer strip of fabric to form the flap at the back of the neck-band. Fig. 5, is a section through the flap and adjoining parts, on line 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6, is a section through the flap and adjoining parts, on line 66 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 2 designates the upper portion of a shirt body and 3 a neck-band thereon. The shirt is closed at the back and open at the front, and the neckband, likewise, is open at the front, its end portions being provided with buttonholes, for the reception of a collar button to hold the ends of the band closed in the usual manner.

The neck band comprises an inner strip of fabric 4 and an outer strip of fabric 7. The inner strip 4 is folded on its longitudinal center, providing inner and outer members 8 and 9, extending upwardly from the longitudinal fold therein. The outer strip 7 is also folded on its longitudinal center, providing inner and outer members 10 and 11, respectively, extending upwardly from the longitudinal fold therein; and the central portion of the inner member is cut away, at 12, from its free upper edge to a line near its longitudinal fold, see Fig. 3. After being out and folded longitudinally, as shown in Fig. 3, the outer strip is folded on the two vertical lines 13, 14, Fig. 3, and in the manner shown in Fig. 4 to produce the flap having the inner member 16 and the outer member 17 After being folded, as shown in Fig. 4, the inner face, shown in Fig. 4, of the outer strip 7 is placed against the outer face of the inner folded strip 4, and the upper edge of the flap 15 and the upper edge of the body of the outer strip 7 are turned inwardly between the strips 4 and 7, and the upper edge of the inner strip 4 is turned inwardly between the strips 4 and 7, and these inturned edges are all secured together by stitching 18 extending around the top of the neckband 3. This being done, the top of the shirt body 2, around the neck portion, is inserted between the lower edges of the inner and outer strips 4 and 7 and the bottom edge of the inner strip 4 and the bottom edge of the outer strip 7, excepting that part forming the flap 15, are secured together and to the shirt body 2 by stitching 19 extending around the bottom of the neck-band 3. The bottoms of the inner and outer members 16 and 17 of the flap 15 are secured together by stitching 20 which also is extended up the outer vertical fold on the line forming the free side of the flap 15. A vertical line of stitching 21, Fig. 5, is also provided to preserve the inner vertical fold on the line 13 forming the closed side of the flap 15.

The flap 15 is provided with a buttonhole 22 for the reception of the back collar button, the buttonhole 2:2 being stitched in the usual manner.

The purpose of cutting away a portion of the outer strip 7, at 12, is to reduce the thickness of the flap 15 and the adjacent portion of the body of the neck-band 3.

I claim:

1. In a closed-back shirt, a shirt body, and a necleband comprising an inner strip of fabric and an outer strip of fabric, said outer strip having a longitudinal told therein providing inner and outer members extending upwardly from the fold, the central portion of the inner member being cut away from its free edge to a line near its longitudinal told, said outer strip having two vertical folds therein forming a longitudinallyextending flap lying normally against the back of the body of the outer strip and having a buttonhole formed therein, the cut portion of said inner member be ing within said flap and between the said outer member and said inner strip, stitching securing the bottom of that portion of said outer strip beneath said flap and the bottom of said inner strip and the top of said body together, stitching securing the top of said flap, the top of the adjacent portion of said outer strip and the top of said; inner strip together, and stitching securing the bottoms of the inner and outer members of said flap together.

2. In a closed-back shirt, a shirt body, and a neck-band comprising an inner strip of fabric and an outer strip of fabric, said outer strip having a longitudinal told therein providing inner and outer members extending, upwardly from the fold, the cen tral portion of the inner member being cut away from its free edge to a line near its longitudinal fold, said outer strip having two vertical folds therein forming a longitudinallyextending flap lying normally against the back of the body of the outer strip and having a buttonho-le formed therein, the cut portion of said inner member being within said flap and between the said outer member and said inner strip, the upper edge of said flap and the upper edge of the adjacent body portion of said outer strip and the upper edge of said inner strip being turned inwardly between said outer strip and said inner strip, stitching securing said inwardly turned edges together, stitching securing the bottom of that portion of said outer strip beneath said flap and the bottom of said inner strip and the top of said body together, and stitching securing the bottoms of the inner and outer members of said flap together.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN C. BOAT. Witnesses:

WM. HARRISON SMITH, A. V. GROUPE.

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